Interdepartmental Program
College of Letters and Science

535 Boyer Hall
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1570

Molecular Biology
310-267-5209
Program e-mail

Hilary A. Coller, PhD, Interim Chair

The doctor of philosophy (PhD) in Molecular Biology is offered under the supervision of an interdepartmental committee. The Molecular Biology Institute serves this committee and the various departments concerned in support of faculty research and teaching associated with the PhD program. Staff members are from participating departments and from the Molecular Biology Institute. Areas for study include cell biology, developmental biology and neurobiology, nucleic acid biochemistry, gene regulation, immunobiology, microbiology/virology and pathogenesis, molecular evolution and paleobiology, oncogenes and signal transduction, plant molecular biology, protein and enzyme structure and function, genomics, bioinformatics, and structural biology.